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Colin Freeze and Andrew Mitrovica| A senior lawyer with the Canadian Human Rights Commission has been suspended, in part because he publicly complained that the agency has become a waste of taxpayers' money and is near collapse.

John Hanson| Don't worry, just dump. Monday, the National Post ran an article about why recycling is a waste of time. Today, the head of the Recycling Council of Ontario explains why that's a lot of garbage.

Brian MacLean| The Liberal's 11-digit clock carries the label "Provincial debt under the NDP," and the Website warns, "This is how fast it is growing!" The clock shows B.C.'s debts mounting before your very eyes. T

more rabble| News from on the ground, first-person accounts, analysis of free trade, strategies of protest and more. Includes follow-up articles on the arrests and detainment of The Germinal 5, Jaggi Singh and Ne

Brian MacLean| The Toronto Star's Dalton Camp criticizes an economic study as so much right-wing dogma. Brian MacLean begs to differ with the columnist's analysis. Of tax cuts, productivity and National Post covera

David Beers| To add up the collateral damage wrought by free-market society, suggests psychologist Bruce Alexander, look around and start counting all the addicts you know. Don't forget to add money, power, work,

Sarah Boseley| The South African government has no intention of buying the antiretroviral drugs that can keep people with HIV/AIDS alive. This despite its courtroom victory over pharmaceutical companies, which were

David Bernans| The Germinal 5 were arrested just before the Summit of the Americas began in Quebec City. After three weeks of imprisonment, they have yet to gain much media attention. Still, supporters have been de

Hugh Mackenzie| When the Harris government was elected, it called its program the Common Sense Revolution. The new provincial budget - including yet more pointless tax cuts and another squeeze on public services - i

Bruce Wallace| Vancouver's Manhattan Minerals struck gold in Peru. Unfortunately, people live on top of it. There's an easy solution, though: move the town. It's an answer that has the townspeople striking back.

Sierra Bacquie| In the wake of new technologies and a thirst for audience involvement, the nature of documentary filmmaking is changing fast. A discussion at last week's Hot Docs in Toronto examined who is doing wha

Cheryl W. Thompson| Monday, a white Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man was indicted by a grand jury on two misdemeanor charges. The death sparked three days of unrest. The victim's mother ca

Marc Lee| For those who came to protest only to be attacked, it was an emotional and radicalizing experience of highs and lows. The experience was a defiant show of solidarity, reinforced by police actions. Th

Judy MacDonald| At 5 p.m. EST Monday May 7, news arrived that Jaggi Singh was freed on $2,000 bail. The five individuals identified with the Germinal group are still in jail. They were arrested before demonstrations

CNN| The country ducked Kyoto, wants to bring back Star Wars and is the United States. Still, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blamed a recent U.S. diplomatic setback on a world ungrateful for America

Malik Russell| Longtime Death Row activist Mumia Abu-Jamal states that he is completely innocent of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. His legal team produces a sworn statement from a m

Kim Pemberton| "It's time our government and the Health Employers Association wake up. We feel the need to increase the action because clearly they're not getting it. Offering our nurses 53 cents more will do nothi

rabble staff| This is an open letter about the arrest and confinement of activist Jaggi Singh. Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Naomi Klein, Alexa McDonough, Bob White and others have signed this docum

Noemi Lopinto| On May 4, a commission representing the Minister will be in Montreal to hear the responses of a few selected advocacy groups. According to Gitanjali Lena, media coordinator for the Canadian Council o

Doug Smith| A documentary airing May 3 on WTN tells the remarkable story of the Notorious Mrs. Armstrong. It also explores the filmmaker's search for traces of the feminist and union organizer who played a part

Claire Miller| Genetically modified canola seeds have been spread around Mount Gambier in South Australia in a breach of federal guidelines intended to prevent their general release into the environment.